The Law and the Mississippi Basin: A Review of Mississippi River Tragedies
...continental United States. From their arrival on the banks of North America's greatest river and its tributaries, European and American settlers realized that economic development in the flood-prone region would...
Cajun South Louisiana
...Television Corporation, which received an invoice in which the letter a had been added to Acadian to become Acadiana. The television manager appreciated this striking new descriptor and popularized it,...
Latinos, the American South, and the Future of US Race Relations
...criminalize the undocumented in the United States in pending legislation before Congress, as well as protesting the abolition of a driving certificate program for undocumented workers sponsored by that state....
Nannie's Stone: Commemoration and Resistance
...A History of Dumbarton United Methodist Church 1772–1990 (Washington, DC: Dumbarton United Methodist Church, 1998); J.W. Cromwell, "The First Negro Churches in the District of Columbia," The Journal of Negro...
An Excerpt from The Lesbian South: Southern Feminists, the Women in Print Movement, and the Queer Literary Canon
...land communes across the United States."12Greta Rensenbrink, "Parthenogenesis and Lesbian Separatism: Regenerating Women's Community through Virgin Birth in the United States in the 1970s and 1980s," Journal of the History...
Hyphenating Waters: A Review of Calypso Magnolia and Island People
...Detail Showing the Cotton Regions of the United States. Illustration by James Wells Champney, 1875. Originally published in Edward King and James Wells Champney's The Great South (Hartford, CT: American...
The Chesapeake Bay
...human systems and the close interaction between environmental shifts and human societal, economic, and even political change. The Chesapeake Bay is the largest estuary in the United States and its...
African American Community Building in Atlanta: A Guide to the Study of Race in America
...American community in Atlanta during the twentieth century. From the perspective of a specific community in a particular place at a critical period, studying race becomes more manageable and gains...
Hijacking Public Housing: A Review of New Deal Ruins
...in existing public housing and the one-to-one replacement of demolished units, HUD policies ultimately helped rid cities of public housing complexes. In the process, HUD began to relinquish oversight, management,...
Taming Southern Waters: Christopher J. Manganiello’s Southern Water, Southern Power
...southeastern United States in 2008. As water levels dropped, the city of Atlanta found itself in a particularly precarious position. Wholly dependent on supplies beyond its control, the city faced...